Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — Sackcloth and Ashes. [ARTICLE]

Sackcloth and Ashes.

Mrs. Percy Yerger is a good woman, but she is not well posted about church festivals, and she is not as refined as she might be. The Episcopal clergyman happening to remark in her presence that it would soon be Advent, she replied: “Then we will all have to mortify ourselves again, but I don’t mind it a bit. Last Adyent I saved enough out of butcher’s meat for the servants’ table to get me a $75 cloak to go to church in.” “That was Lent, madame.” “No it wasn’t lent. Three or four of the neighbors’ wives wanted me to lend them that cloak, but I told them it wasn’t mine, and lied out of it that way. —Texas Siftings.